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>> awe. another one. what's so wrong? why are you crying? >> and all that matters. >> you will soon have to pay more for pizza. ceo of papa johns says obama care will force them to raise prices. >> people will be willing to swallow that. after all, they're willing to swallow that. after all, they're willing to swallow this. captioning funded by cbs welcome to "cbs this morning." the united states olympic team is celebrating one of its best days yet at the summer games. americans won seven track and field medals wednesday, including three golds and finished one-two in women's beach volleyball. >> here's the medal count. 81 medals overall taking the lead over china. however, the chinese have the most gold medals. russia in third place followed by britain and germany. mark phillips is in london covering the olympics. good morning to you. >> good morning, gayle, charlie. the stars were aligned at the starting line and in heavens. it was a good day for the americans and the main olympic stadium. not so hot if you're jamaican. but their time will come again. let's start somewhere else. >> spare a thought for this man. a snap and it's gone. there were other memorable moments that didn't involve winning. at least not winning medals. there was another kind of victory for sarah attar, the first woman ever to run in the olympics for saudi arabia, which was finally pressured to send a few women athletes to the games. she finished last in her heat and we delighted. >> well, i think it really shows that there's progress on its way and that we were allowed to compete. it shows that more steps will come and this was an amazing thing. for women in saudi arabia, i think it can be inspiring, you know, to not give up on your dreams. it can and will come true. >> for something completely different, a leap across the cultural divide to the beach volleyball gold medal game, which was an all-american, in fact an all californian event. kerri walsh jennings and misty may treanor who dominated for a decade, dominated again beating jennifer kessy and april ross. >> olympic gold. >> and it was an evening of intense rivalry on the track between the united states and jamaica. the smooth running allyson felix got her long-awaited retribution after being beaten out by jamaican campbell brown in the 200-meter sprint at the last two games. felix found enough down the straight to finally win her gold. aries merritt won his gold in the 110-meter hurdles, the first u.s. win in this event in four olympics. brittany reese was so distracted by the u.s. success on the track, she almost forgot to make her last long jump. it didn't matter. her best earlier jump was good enough for gold. >> that's a big jump. >> the u.s. track and field team may be on track for what it wants to accomplish here, a 30 medal haul. gold in the men's 200 meter, though, may be unreachable. jamaican usain bolt, the fastest man in the world in the 100 meters jogged to win his heat. the rest of the world is running for second. and the ioc seems poised to take a gold medal away from the u.s. from cyclist tyler hamilton who won at the athens olympics ago. eight years is the statute of limitation on gold and hamilton admitted last year that he had taken performance enhancing drugs. it seems you can peddle, but you can't hide. >> mark, thank you very much. republicans hold their national convention in less than three weeks. only one major issue still needs to be decided. a running mate for mitt romney. jan crawford has more on the speculation. >> good morning, charlie. there are two big questions that you're hearing right now in washington. when is romney going to make this vp announcement and who will it be? ? iowa it looked and sounded like another day on the campaign trail for mitt romney. >> this economy has been tough for a long time. >> but behind the politicking, romney is weighing what some say will be his most important decision as a candidate, selecting his running mate. on wednesday, ann romney added to the buzz, tweeting mitt's choice will be announced soon. earlier in the week, vp watchers wondered if they had gotten a clue. republicans started rolling out convention speakers and several, including former secretary of state condoleeza rice were rumored to be on the short list with the prime speaking slot still open. some wondered if the announced speakers didn't make the cut. romney quickly shut down the speculation. >> the fact that someone is speaking at the convention doesn't necessarily mean they would find their slot changed from one time to another. >> now the focus is on a bus tour that romney kicks off saturday. he'll be joined by potential number twos, ohio senator rob portman and reportedly florida senator marco rubio. if there's anything to learn from past vp reveals, is to expect the unexpected. >> senator, i am honored to be chosen as your running mate. >> take 2008 when senator john mccain surprised the country with going with then alaska governor, sarah palin. >> we hit the richter scale on surprise. >> rick davis served as the campaign chairman and convinced him to select palin knowing he needed a game changing pick. romney doesn't need to be as bold because the race is already close. >> there's no question he's in a more enviable position than mccain was. i think he's a conservative man and will want somebody like him. who will govern with the same style and philosophy. >> now, on romney's short list are rob portman, tim pawlenty. they're considered the safe picks. pconservatives are encouraging romney to go bold like picking congressman paul ryan. thank you, jan crawford. 2008 presidential race, new york city's former mayor joins us in studio 57. welcome. >> good morning. >> nice to see you. >> everybody has an opinion about who their candidate for the nominee should be as his running mate. but nobody knows. so the speculation is -- >> it's fabulous. >> who is your guy? >> i like them all. paul ryan -- the recent interest in paul ryan is -- paul would be a terrific candidate. i kind of prefer marco rubio. >> what does mitt romney think of marco rubio? >> i don't know. he respects them all. he respects governor pawlenty, senator portman. the reason i lean toward marco is i like the idea that he's very smart, i like the idea that he's a terrific debater and speaker, all of that. but he adds the element of outreach to the hispanic vote and outreach to young people. we need help, frankly, in both areas, minorities, we need help with young people. >> how about women? >> i was going to say. >> sorry. >> that's okay. >> condoleeza rice would be a very exciting choice. >> not needing help with women. in temps of the polls, the recent polls showed a gender gap between the nominees. >> actually, people over 40 were voting, romney would win by 10%. >> or only white middle classmen. then he'd win by 80%. it's ridiculous the way it's polarized. >> do you think he has to go bold but at the same time pick somebody who can energize the party and if, god forbid, is a heartbeat away from the president. >> that's right, gayle. first issue always in picking a vice president is don't create any questions about is the person ready to be president. because vice presidents don't win for the president. they lose for the president. and i think every person we mentioned. >> marco rubio does that? >> absolutely. more qualified than president obama was when president obama ran for president. held a much higher position in the legislature than president obama ever held. much more executive responsibility. so be very hard for the democrats to say marco rubio isn't qualified when the guy sitting in the white house had less qualifications. >> let's talk about mitt romney. david brooks and "the new york times" said, what's relevant is who the guy is. he has an amazing personal story. his family was going across the west, poverty, building an empire and on and on. karl rove, among other things, mr. romney should talk approximate his wife's illness and his wealth. americans know nothing about the first, little about the second and much about the third. why don't americans at this time know more about mitt romney in. >> i think mitt is a -- he's a reserved guy, which is what he is. i think that's all great advice for them to say that. mitt romney should run like mitt romney. >> why isn't he? >> mitt romney is just fine. mitt romney has had a great success, if we all the same success at mitt romney we'd all be very happy. if he could have as much success as president as running bain capital, every time i see the ads from obama about bain capital, it makes me want to vote for him. if he can create billions for other people, maybe he can create billions for americans. >> he should be telling his personal story is your point. >> he should. he should do what comes natural for him. he shouldn't be put into a situation if he's uncomfortable talking about his personal lifelike some are, don't talk about it. what i care, what kind of president are you going to make. his career, head of bain capital, governor, this guy is a successful guy. maybe we should try that for a period of time as president. >> i was thinking -- >> a successful guy before he became president. >> he has been in the public eye a long time. there's still a gap that people think who is he? what do you want us to know about him? >> how he's going to function as president. i agree with them, it helps an awful lot if you have the touchy-feely part. president obama isn't terribly different. president obama is a great speaker. so he gets that sort of feeling of -- he's a fabulous speaker. not the most personable guy. not the touchy-feely. he's not bill clinton or ronald reagan. >> the sense of aloofness. >> in a way they're similar. president obama we, i don't think we say that as much on the other hand, both are very, very bright. they'll have a terrific debate. we have two very intelligent men debating. maybe that's what we should look at. who has the better ideas for america, who is going to get our economy going. not who is going to be as charming as charlie or gayle. >> thank you. it's great to have you here. >> thank you. >> rudy giuliani, the former mayor of new york. an ailing american researcher was evacuated from a base in antarctica. an australian jet landed at christ church new zealand after landing on ice at the research station. a spokesperson says he needs urgent surgery but is not saying what the medical problem is. flights to the ant arc i can are usually in the summer. it's winter there now. the sun is up for a few hours a day. an alaska airlines jet lost cabin air pressure in midair on wednesday and had to make an emergency landing in california. flight 539 was in en route from ontario airport in southern california to seattle. an hour after takeoff the 737 started having electrical and flight control issues. one passenger said it was her husband who told her something was going on. >> i said what do you mean something is wrong? then he started crying, the babies started crying and our ears were popping and hurting. >> when they told you to put on your seatbelt and put it tight, you felt they're not telling us everything. >> the jet landed safely in san jose. none of the 131 passengers were injured. the faa is now investigating. >> a high-profile murder trial was held in china this morning in a case that shook up the chinese government and made headlines around the world. the wife of a former top official is facing charges of murdering a british businessman. barry petersen is in beijing. barry, good morning. >> good morning, charlie. >> reporter: it ended in one day. the communist party anxious to get this over quickly. it's embarrassed because there are allegations of corruption that could reach into the party's highest ranks. he was led into court by what appeared to be guards. the trial raised allegations of murder, money and the use of political power that allegedly helped her family amass a fortune reported to be in the tens of millions of dollars. prosecutors say it was this person who personally poured poison into the mouth of her british business associate at a chinese hotel. but most observers think the trial is more about the communist party going after her husband who was party boss of one of china's biggest cities. he was on his way to a seat in the elite bureau that runs china but was suddenly stripped of his party leadership job. many beef bo used his political influence to imprison political and business rivals and that helped his wife and family make millions in shady deals. this man is professor of political science at the people's university in beijing. it's an example, he says, of a local high-level official and his family acting recklessly and lawlessly with their power. they were the power couple x sometimes compared to the kendis. but that fame and and ill-gotten fortune may have been too much for the button-down leadership that wants nothing to hint at high-level corruption. orville shell is a long time china expert now visiting beijing. >> what the party hopes the verdict will say was there's been malfeasance in office. a family has committed crimes, to boot. and the party has moved resolutely to rectify that. >> no verdict yet but under the judicial system in china, there's no question what the verdict will be. guilty. the only real question is whether she face prison time for the death sentence. charlie and gayle? >> barry petersen, thank you. time to show you the headlines from around the globe. the milwaukee journal sentinel reports that the gunman at a sikh temple in wisconsin took his own life. the gunman took his own life after shooting six people to death. wade michael page was shot in the stomach by a police officer. police then say he shot himself in the head. we still do not know the motive for the attack. the los angeles times reports u.s. has started its first program to clean up agent orange in vietnam. it was used to clear jungle vegetation. it's been linked to cancer and other disabilities in vietnam veterans and the vietnamese population. the wall street journal reports the rising cost of college is hurting upper middle income families that earn up to $205,000 a year. from 2007 to 2010, those families saw the biggest jump in the percentage of student loan debt and a sharp increase in the amount of debt owed. usa today says pet ownership is down in the u.s. americans had 2 million fewer dogs and 7.6 million fewer cats at the end of last year. that's compared to 2006. we now have about 70 million dogs and 74 million cats overall. it is official this morning. july was the hottest month ever recorded in the lower 48 states. government forecasters say the heat broke a record set during the dust bowl of the 1930s. july's average temperature was 77.6 degrees. along with the record heat, the drought covers over 60% of the country. one problem with the drought, well, bears and other wild animals are having more trouble finding food. in colorado, a black wbear was caught raiding a chocolate store. take a look at this in new mexico. a bear walks into the hotel lobby after someone left the door open. it wandered around for a little bit looking for something to eat but didn't find anything it liked. so it went on its merry way. can you imagine charlie going to the hotel in the middle of the night, hello, mr. this national weather report sponsored by healthy essentials.com. tens of thousands of american bridges are crumbling. critics are calling for a major commitment to fix them before the next disaster comes. >> a large number of bridges in every state are really a danger to the traveling public. >> we'll take you live to one busy span described as a "hold your breath bridge." and a small plane crashes in idaho with the cameras rolling inside the cockpit. everyone on board survived. you'll hear from two of those passengers on "cbs this morning." this portion of "cbs this morning" sponsored by macy's. celebrate the biggest sale of the year, the 25th anniversary sale and sweepstakes at petsmart. save up to 25% on thousands of items. and save up to $10 on sentry® fiproguard™, which contains the same active ingredient as frontline® top spot. at petsmart®. 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>> charlie, it's warm here right now. the water calm. but the bridge not in great shape. this is one of the most extreme examples. this is a bridge that was supposed to last for 50 years. it's now been 57. it was a bridge that was designed to handle 100,000 vehicles a year -- a day. it's now 139,000. it's part of anover all national trend of infrastructure that's been overextended and underfunded. the collapse of the i-35 bridge in minneapolis five years ago last week was the most dramatic and most horrific example of what can happen. >> that bridge tragically cost the lives of 13 people and injured another 145. >> if you ask lepatner, the next disaster is too close than anyone wants to believe. >> since 1989, we've had nearly 600 bridge failures. while not widely publicized, the fact of the matter is that a large number of bridges in every state are really a danger to the traveling public. >> the most recent federal highway report in 2009 found that of the 600,000 bridges in the u.s., 72,000 were structurally deficient, meaning in poor condition. 18,000 were fracture critical, meaning there's no redundancy. if one piece fails, the whole bridge does. nearly 8,000 bridges fell into both of those categories, including the longest bridge in new york state. the tappan zee. >> it's a dinosaur. that's the issue. >> rockland county executive scott vanderhoff says infrastructure is often taking a back seat during tough economic times. >> when you think where money should be allocated, one would think making structures safe at the top of the list. are do you think it hasn't been? >> we've debated it and studied it for over a decade. you've got to bite the bullet. you've got to replace these aging infrastructures before you do have a serious problem. >> replacing this bridge will cost at least $5 billion. lepatner says fixing every one of the most at-risk bridges in the u.s. will cost up to $60 billion. he's not holding his breath. >> i'm hoping that we're going to confront our politicians and make them address the perilous state of the infrastructure once and for all. >> lepatner says in many of these cases, the money is available. right now the political will is not. charlie and gayle? >> jeff, thank you. with us now former pennsylvania governor ed rendell, the author of a nation of wusses, how a nation of leaders lost the guts to make us great. the question is, why haven't we done more about our infrastructure because we know it's so central to our future. >> it's interesting. one of the people on that piece said right. it gets put on the back burner. there's no immediacy to it. ronald reagan said we should fix the bridges and roads today because it's going to cost more down the road. he of course, was dead right. we don't do it because it's easy to put off. but the bill is coming due. our public safety is threat yented, import infrastructure, getting killed by the chinese. it's time we do something. but that means investing money and there's no political will to invest money in anything because we're a bunch of scared i cats. >> there was a time we had a $900 billion stimulus program and too little money devoted to the infrastructure in your words. >> 70 million of the money was oi owe barbara back, both wanted to triple the amount of spending. they were put back because we wanted to put in tax cuts that the american people don't know they got. if we went into the streets and asked people, did you get a tax cut from the obama stimulus plan, 95% would say no. >> no. >> but they did. and we didn't -- didn't get any republican votes. infrastructure puts people back to work. the irony on this all is this is a perfect time for a significant infrastructure repair program because interest rates are at the lowest, states can borrow money very cheaply. number one. number two, it creates well-paying jobs. we need the jobs. >> isn't this one of the republican messages in this campaign? >> it should be, but it's not. the only one talking about infrastructure is president obama in his october jobs bill. he had another $50 billion for roads, bridges and school construction. $25 billion for school construction. that's not enough. >> i remember when the connecticut river bridge collapsed killing several people. i think until that happens and something catastrophic happened, most people don't realize how serious this problem is. what do you think we need to do, governor. what needs to be done to get to sound the alarm without scaring people? people hear the numbers, their eyes glaze over. they think i drive over the bridge, i'm fine. what can you say that drives home the point and gets people to care? >> number one, point out the incidents. in philadelphia, you have to close it for three days because there was a crack in one of the piers that supported the bridge. 180,000 trucks and cars go over that bridge every day. can you imagine if it collapsed? we came this close. so you've got to tell people it's public safety. but it's also economic competitiveness. moving goods quickly. the chamber says our underperforming roads and bridges cost us $1 trillion out of our gdp every year. every year. there's so many years to -- best of all, it creates well-paying jobs that can't be outsourced. you can't fix a bridge in india. it has to be fixed by american workers right here. >> are these shovel-ready projects? >> the president complains they weren't. the bid process takes a little bit of time. it takes four to six months to do it because of the big process that most states have. but you can suspend that bid process. when i was governor, we put our contractors in and the bureaucrats in and i said i'm having the time you have to select the rfp, to file the rfp and we were number one state in the union getting that stimulus money spent. so you can do it. the problem with us these days is we all say, it can't be done. >> we never do it that way. darn it. we can do it if it's time to start breaking some of the rules to get this country back on track. >> governor rendell, thank you. great to see you. >> my pleasure. if you ever wanted to know what a plane crash looks like from inside. this is as close as you will get. we have the story behind this video shot inside a plane as it went down. stay with us. 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but then the plane started to lose altitude. alex arhets was in the back seat looking out the side window. >> come on, hit the power, let's go. it never happened. >> this is what he saw. braced for the worst. >> as the plane started hitting the trees, i just told myself, just go limp and relax. so i did. and i had expected to do the life flashing before my eyes. instead, i had an instant calm feeling that things were going to be okay. >> i remember hitting the trees and it sounded like rapid fire. gunfire it sounded like. but then we were all upside down. >> it was deathly quiet much the cameras, though, kept rolling. leslie gropp, the pilot, was the first to speak. much to their surprise, no one was seriously injured except him. >> once my dad unbuckled, i could see that he was bleeding pretty badly. >> they pulled him to the safety. he had broken his cheekbone. he's recovering now and none -- they say the way he kept control of the plane might have saved their lives. >> you just feel blessed. you feel like there's god's hand at play. >> at first, they weren't going to post any of these images. it was too personal they said. but they decided it was such a vivid reminder of how much life can change in an instant, they had to share it. and did. for "cbs this morning," i'm lee cowan in los angeles. >> really, really extraordinary, charlie. everyone was so quiet and calm. most people would be screaming and hollering. but they were so quiet and calm. i think that that adds to the power of that video. you could lose your life. >> you wonder what everybody thinks approximate that that's on a plane going down. i'm going to see my life we have some really good news this morning. the doctors say eating chocolate could make you thinner. i like the sound of that. we'll have the facts of that coming up on "cbs this morning." premium steak. e ♪ this is really good. like what i grew up with. only one out of five steaks is good enough to be called walmart choice premium beef. can i let you in on a secret? 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american has a chance at a gold medal. in the first games where a female boxers have been allowed to compete. >> the u.s. team's hopes are riding on claressa shields and her punishing upper cut. she fights for the gold medal later today. bigad shaban has her story. hello to you. >> good morning, gayle and charlie. claressa shields is a talkative and outgoing high school junior. today she's spending most of her time alone trying to take it easy for her final fight. i spoke to her coach and she's trying to avoid the hype surrounding this big match. that may not be so easy. >> shields comes out of it and starts waling some more. >> when fighting claressa shields, her stamina hits you before her gloves ever do. just 17, she boxed her way past the semifinals and into the gold medal bout. now the team from flint, michigan, is one fight away from being the middleweight olympic champion. her teammate, marlen esparza lost in the semifinals but is still ensured a spot on the podium bronze. this is the first time female fighters are allowed to box at the olympics. and shields could become america's inaugural title holder. >> it means april lot to me. it's not just about making history. i put in so much hard work. the point is to go to london and get a gold medal. >> it's highlighted what's become the women's games in london. women have scored more than double the amount of gold medals than men and female boxing is expected to hit a peak in popularity with the debut at the olympics. for the better part of the 20th century, it was banned in most countries. for claressa, it's all about being disciplined. >> you got to be. or else it's not -- i train twice, three times a day. >> her dedication earned her a spot at the games. but it was her dad's dream that got her in the ring. claressa didn't meet him until she was nine years old. her father was in jail nearly her entire childhood. >> we couldn't really do nothing. there was nothing for him. his dream was to be a boxer. so when he said you know, boxing was his passion, i decided i would box. >> that started her career at the age of 11. she's only lost one match since then. she's beat out her male counterparts as the youngest person to make the u.s. olympic team in 40 years. claressa's father once told her boxing was a man's sport. >> beautiful. there you go. >> it was only a reason to push harder. >> that was a big motivation for her to become a boxer. she figured that anything a man can do, i can do it too. >> chris mannix is a writer for sports illustrated sand says she has the straight punch of sugar ray robinson and the difficult back story of other famed fighters. >> most boxers come from tough backgrounds x broken families. claressa shields is one of them. like most male boxers, she's harnessed that atmosphere and taken herself to the top. >> claressa isn't letting up. she spent her whole life being tough in and out of the ring. she's not about to pull any punches now. getting to fight for gold is 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[ cheering ] >> scientists exploded in joy and relief. it's all part of the transition from the old nasa to nasa 2.0. >> i would say the new nasa is the old nasa willing to accept new ideas. >> not just new ideas about exploration, but new ways to keep the american people focused on space. for the landing of curiosity, nasa used every trick in the high tech communications book. millions went online to watch nasa's special effects video of the landing, called seven minutes of terror. >> opens up that fast. it's a neck-snapping 9 gs. >> starring a giant parachute and a rocket-propelled landing platform. nasa used every kind of social the rover has its own twitter account with nearly a million followers and it will be sending back a steady stream of color photos, including these taken during its descent. nasa seems pleased with a scientist known as mohawk guy is an internet sensation. >> it's nasa for the new generation. >> bill harwood says it's no surprise that people are fascinated with the mars rover. >> landing on another world is exciting. what are they going to see? what will they find? was there life on mars? >> due to tight budgets, nasa had to withdraw from two other mars missions with a european space agency and will loss $300 million for planetary exploration next year with more cuts to follow. >> from a planetary exploration standpoint, the budget is killing them. >> always the optimist, administrator bolden is holding out hope that space exploration and budget cuts can coexist. >> there will never be a budget that will satisfy the insatiable appetite for funds that i have. >> you know, there is not a chance in the world that the insatiable appetite for money is going to be satisfied in today's budget climate. so nasa is going to have to live by the new rule, do more with less. charlie and gayle? >> so, chip, any plans to send human astronauts to mars? >> well, there's a lot of talk about it. in fact, president obama said he wants nasa to move in that direction. but when anybody talks about an actual date, they're talking about something beyond the year 2030. so it's going to be a long and expensive wait. charlie and gayle? 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someone planted a bomb there. >> electrical boxes on the sidewalk, people on cell phones. the tiny silhouette of a construction worker in the distance can look like a sniper. virtually anything on the road can be a flash point for a combat veteran. >> is it possible to truly overcome these driving anxieties? >> yes. it's truly possible to live with those anxieties. not to say overcome them. they're not going to go away. not going to cure his ptsd. what we can do is address the issues that are underlying it to allow the symptoms to be manageable. >> for campbell, that means continually reminding himself he's no longer in danger. >> it's safe. we're in america. bombs aren't going to go off. yeah, it's giving me a little bit more freedom. i want to be able to take over driving if she's tired. i know i'll never about 100%. but i want to be better. >> lee woodruff joins us now. this is interesting, lee. i think of a traffic jam irritating for most of us, but to him means something totally different. he says he wants to do better. go ahead. >> i want to say completely anxiety-ridden experience. we were in the car after his test and a driver blew through a stop sign, cut across three lanes of traffic and you could see him completely stiffen. and mark, his therapist had to say, it's okay. we're here. we're in the states. we're in america. >> how long does it take to get out of this sense of the memory that's deep inside? >> this is a pilot study. so this is the first time that they're recruiting drivers. think about being a male, used to driving, used to be the person your family who is the driver and to be able to see your life circumskriebd by this anxiety. you're not going to raise your hand and say i have this problem. we' removing the stigma is the first part. it will take reconditioning. one of the things, it's creating an app where you have a personal safe place. maybe your daughter, your wife saying it's okay, honey. we're here. >> something you can go to. >> when you start to feel it. >> he wants to do better. is he doing better sm. >> he is doing better. he's able to drive on highways now. he can go from fresno to palo alto. it's in the city. where we talked about the different triggers for him. that's the difficult part. something can happen immediately. who would have thought of a construction worker on top of a building. snipers are on top of buildings in iraq. that's something that you will flash pack to. >> i thought it was really, really interesting. thank you, lee sthiemt you're welcome. >> good to see you. >> good to see you, too. mike tyson is with us this morning. he's ready to show us how his one of a kind life story. that's mike entering the building. how it made its way to broadway. we're talking with chris rock about everything from politics to his new movie. you're watching "cbs this morning." kids, do you know what it is that makes this country great? 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p>> yeah. i'm in a real movie. real script. >> what's an unreal movie? >> sometimes movies are, especially when you're a comedian, sometimes you're just in vehicles that i call. they're vehicles for you to be funny. then there's movies that the story -- that are all about the story. this is a movie all about the story. >> you're with julie dell fi and when she looked for someone to play her partner, she thought of you. i would never put you together. >> i think she saw me with my kids. i met her at a screening of good hair. she saw it and wow, she saw me as a father. from that moment, she was like, oh, this guy can play my love interest in this movie. >> you're looking forward to going back to stand-up comedy. i heard you miss cursing. is that true in. >> i do this lovely movie, two days in new york, and it's lovely. before this, i'm doing madagascar. it's a children's movie and it's lovely. i go grown-ups 2, me and adam sandler and the guys. it's lovely. they're all pg type things. so would be kind of nice to get up there and curse up a storm and have some fun. >> are you writing all the time in. >> i am writing all the time. i got a ton of nasty stuff. >> care to try it out to see how it's received. do a pg version on "cbs this morning." >> i'm writing down. >> what are you observing? what are seeing that interesting you? >> we got to figure out guns, how to stop this gun stuff. we do. whenever people try to defend their guns, they always say i'm protecting my property. i'm protecting my property. every time there's a mass shooting, it's a guy who lives with his mother. he owns no property. >> what do you think of the presidential race we're watching? >> this is going to be a good one. it's going to be interesting to see how mean they can get. >> it's getting mean already. >> getting really, really, really mean. >> what do you think of that? the politics? >> i wish we didn't have to stoop to this level. i wish they made it like a real fight. watch the olympics right now and everything is fair. i wish both guys could only spend the exact same amount of money and let the best man win. >> you're talking about the olympics. you've got a house full of girls, daughters. you are considered the expert on black hair after your documentary hair. everybody chris knows about black hair. >> i know a few things about hair. >> what about this thing bubbling up about gabby douglas and her hair. i was dpisisappointed to see pee complaining approximate her hair. >> certain people. just the media. i took my kids to breakfast the other day. when i sit with them at breakfast, i try to get them to read something from the paper. get interest. >> be informed. so my daughter wants to read about gabby. i press down on my ipad and try to find a story for her to read. but every one was negative. it was like her father is a deadbeat. her mother is broke. and her hair. it's like, what has become to the news where you can't write something positive about a little girl winning a gold medal? that's not enough to get our interest. >> your raising your daughters, are there certain things you take into consideration about what your kids will see? did it change the roles that you take at all? are you cognizant, i want to do something they can see me in? >> i've turned down a couple of things like pimps. >> you don't want to do that? >> somebody had -- i'm not going to say his name. had the rights to super fly. it's like we can do it on broadway. i was like dude, i'm not -- i don't need money that bad. i don't want to make -- i got daughters. i can't produce a pimp musical. >> those are things you don't want to do. >> right. >> do you think you can do pretty much anything you want to do? >> i think so. i have to do it at a certain level. if i do it right, i can do pretty much anything. >> the transition to acting feels good to you? >> i like acting. i like it a lot. i'm not the same person as an actor as i am as a stand-up. >> how is that different? >> instead, i'm leo dicaprio. i can go wherever i want to go. i'm leo. leo gets the best scripts. [ laughter ] >> that's what happens when you write your own material. >> hey, hey man. leo is coming. everybody knows leo is getting the best. >> has anything changed about stand-up? to see you walking across the stage and to have the stand, a bottle of water or anything. that's about it. >> it is a beautiful art form. >> in some ways it's the purest art form, isn't it? >> it is the purest art form. it can still be bad. it's the biggest risk. they're the last -- the stand-ups are the last people that actually get to express their opinions. in front of groups of people. >> do you get nervous on stage? when you walk in a room, everybody expects chris rock to be funny. >> it depends. if i am walk -- if i went to the comedy cellar tonight, i probably wouldn't be that nervous. i'd be a little mer vus, not that nervous, because no one paid. it's like, this is a bar. >> they don't like it -- >> you're seeing me for eight bucks, good for you. the garden or radio city and people paid their money, yeah, i'm very nervous. i want to present. i like being leo. i want to stay being leo. i want to come back. >> suppose somebody comes to you and it is a talented actor and wants to be very good at stand-up. you made the transition to acting. teach me how to be good. >> they have to be funny. you know -- >> what's that mean x funny? >> they have to be funny. some guys that aren't stand-ups are still very funny. could i help harrison ford be a great stand-up? not at all. love indy, seen every movie. >> okay. one of the greatest movies ever. >> how about leonardo in. >> leo is not that funny either. leo could be funny, though. i've seen him funny at a party. jonah hill is not a stand-up. >> helping him be funny. >> leo has an edge to him. swag. >> you need swag and an edge. >> jonah hill is not a stand-up but if we got in a room and we worked on a -- jonah hill would be headlining. >> could you make charlie rose funny? >> charlie rose -- >> he's rather dry, steven wright type viewer. >> stephen wright. >> as we get ready to launch two days in new york, are you nervous? >> a little nervous. this is going to play in the art houses and the critics will see it and maybe somebody will get an award. >> does she create these movies herself? is she a filmmaker? >> she is a filmmaker to the highest level. she's a great writer and she knows how to shoot and she knows all about cinematography. she's amazing. probably the best director i've worked with. >> are you serious? >> yeah. >> she's amazing. wow. she got stuff out of you? >> she got stuff out of me. steven spielberg is the best director i've worked with. >> i was going to -- >> as a role -- >> charlie goes, are you serious? >> i'm a little a.i. i'm a robot. i have two lines. i might still be -- >> steven spielberg. >> people don't know i'm an a.i. i have worked with steven spielberg. >> and you killed it. >> they paid you. >> a couple of hours, i had lunch with him. we had sandwiches. one of the nicest afternoons. >> he wasn't interested new. >> okay. i'll put you in the movie but say something funny. >> thank you, chris rock. >> found out i worked with spielberg. >> i am impressed. >> good luck. two days in new york opens in theaters tomorrow. chris also has a new series called totally biased, that appears on fx tonight. the names mike tyson and broadway may not go together. but that's where the former heavyweight champ is working these days. he's in the green room. he's here to talk about his one-man show based on performance. more than my lifestyle, how i'm living and what i bring in as far as income. my insecurity is performing well. >> in the ring? >> yeah. >> i totally will lose my mind after a bad performance. i totally freak. >> it haunts me. >> yeah. totally freak. >> because you're embarrassed? you're humiliated? >> yeah. people say you look great. a win is a win. i strive for perfection. mike tyson was the youngest heavyweight boxing champion ever but he was never perfect every knockout punch seemed to be followed by a scandal that was just as devastating for him. >> iron mike has stepped out of the ring and on to the broadway stage. he stars in a one-man show about his life called mike tyson, undisputed truth. he joins us here in studio 57. >> how are you doing? >> did you ever think that was possible, broadway stage? >> well, no. once me and my wife watched a bronx film on stage. i said wow, i want to do that. i could do that. i've done this for ten years. i'm in europe. i said i would clean it up a little. not like in europe. i can do this, baby. >> but you tell your story, mike, warts and all. the good, the bad and the ugly of your life on stage. you sort of pour your heart. >> as much as i can in two hours. me and my wife said we'll do shows to change it with other shows to get the right atmosphere for it. >> what do you want people to know walking out of the theater? >> i don't know what they're going to know. that's their perception. that's why i'm doing the show. so everybody can have their own say or perception of what they believe. but i just want to be who i am and give a performance and hope everybody enjoys my performance >> mike, when i was sitting there, you were talking about painful parts of your life. people were actually laughing. i wanted to say, it's not funny. even you said to the audience, this is not comedy. >> yeah. i have -- i don't know why people think that. but i guess it will -- i guess maybe some people experienced that same kind of a tragic moment in their life and they say, wow, just like in rehab, wow he's just like me, we had totally two different spans of life. this guy may be an executive and i'm a guy coming from -- but we still lived the same lifestyle and relate to each other. maybe they related to a certain tragic moment in my life. >> when you know there is mike tyson on stage on broadway, there clearly have been moments in your life in which you could never have imagined that and you thought my future is over. >> yeah. you do think that. and then also there's vices that you possess and they get you out of that slump. vices like vanity, ego, stuff hike that. you say no way, i can do this. you know, even sometimes you can get a guy that is just on his last meal and all of a sudden he says no way, i'm such and such, i can do this. i'm a god even. it's so ridiculous that a person could believe that when the whole scope of humanity, we're absolutely nothing. just that a thought can make a person transcend that whole despair moment into something magnanimous, you know. >> played a longer role in your life, how would it have been different? >> still thinks i should be fighting. you're still young and healthy. you never took a beating. you should still be fighting. you could beat these guys. that's how he thinks. this is how he thinks. forget that i'm doing well, paying bills, i have a family and everything. that's good too. but you still have fight in you. you stop fighting when you have no more fight left. that's the mentality. >> you think there's fight in you still? >> not for that kind of stuff. >> in order for a guy like myself, mike tyson, to be successful in a field like that, i can't be the average. i have to be a savage, an animal and being that person doesn't transcend to the free world. >> to be the world's best, you have to be savage and an animal in the ring? >> no. >> no? >> that's phony to being the world's best. even if you're a businessman and no physical alter indication, you still have to be a ferocious savage and getting the deals. you have to have the desire to first be the best. it's your only purpose in life, to be the best. to transcend over the eons abdomen eons of oblivions. >> but you were the best. >> yeah. >> what made you so good? >> the desire to be the best. >> desire was as important as the speed of your punches? >> the speedo owe your body's only purpose is to carry your brain. the brain develops a desire to want to be the best. and you have also other exponents, you know. you just want to be the best. >> did it come from within you or did cuss give that to you? >> no. cuss explained it to me and he explained that you have to be -- have some kind of vanity about yourself. that's why he believed mohammed ali was the best fighter in the world. >> because he loved himself. >> it's like a megalomania ego. you have to be that guy. >> you talk a lot about cuss in the play. he starts out, charlie, with a sense of humor saying we'll all leave with our ears intact. you immediately set the stage to know there's going to be funny stuff here. do you think that people are do you worry that people are afraid of you when you walk into a room? >> not -- not now because i'm not the same person. at that period in my life, you saw my muscles bulging out of my neck and i looked like a neanderthal back then. >> in your head, you said it was your head even then, it's what's in your head that matters now. >> absolutely. i'm not the same guy that i was back then in my head. >> what's the worst thing? of this life that you have lived, what was the worst moment for you? when did you think, my god? >> maybe when i lost my daughter. i had a 4-year-old daughter that had a tragedy. i was stuck and had to make something happen. i had to make that -- i don't know. paradigm shift, happier, something have to work after that. >> how did you do it? >> i don't know. i just when i developed -- worked on my discipline. i had this discipline that sometimes gets me in trouble. cuss always explained, you love it. sometimes i stop -- i'm a ramadan, i'm not practicing ramadan because of my work. but normally, sometimes i'm so extreme, i'll do the ramadan without eating, period. just water. it's just my extreme personality. >> you're still very, very disciplined. still even today, no matter what you do in life, you're disciplined. i want to talk about the play for a second. it got the death threat. i was wondering what you heard when -- i was wondering what you thought when you heard that, someone on twitter said i'm going to go to the play, named your play specifically and said he was going to do an aurora. what did you think? >> i never saw it. somebody mentioned it to me. i'm tired, i'm getting up at different hours of the day or night. when somebody told me, i thought nobody is going to hurt me. i'm a different kind of celebrity. i'm in the open, i'm accessible. anybody could kill me. i don't have bodyguards. my best friend but not my bodyguard. the only thing i'm worried about is the safety of the people in the audience. they're coming to be entertained. something drastic like that happened, i wouldn't want to have that. >> we're out of time. great to have you here. >> your show, undisputed truth is running on broadway. thank you for joining us. we'll be right back. we're back. i'm going on vacation as you know. >> enjoy, enjoy charlie. >> where are you going? >> to a house in the country. >> mike says where are you going? >> relax. cñhx89888 i'll go east coast for the philly cheesesteak omelette. no, let's go to the heartland for the midwestern meat & potatoes sandwich. wait umm, yeah. try the seven regionally inspired dishes of the tour of america menu. only at denny's.